"There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. There were such soldiers at Manassas, and they are probably there still...Rising above vulgar prejudice, the slaveholding rebel accepts the aid of the black man as readily as that of any other." - Frederick Douglass in 1861.
Well, I found more of this article of Douglass' from 1861.
Douglass:
"We would tell him that General Jackson in a slave state fought side by side with Negroes at New Orleans, and like a true man, despising meanness, he bore testimony to their bravery at the close of the war."
Douglass neglected to tell his readers that Jackson betrayed some of the slaves whom he had promised freedom:
"James Roberts was one man who responded to Andrew Jackson’s call for volunteers in the fall of 1814. He was a slave who soon found himself enlisted in the Tennessee militia. Roberts fought in New Orleans and claimed that as many as fifty Blacks were killed during the battle, a fact that was omitted from Jackson’s official report. In the end, Jackson did not grant these men the freedom he had promised them. Of this betrayal Roberts wrote, “Such monstrous deception and villainy could not, of course, be allowed to disgrace the pages of history, and blacken the character of a man who wanted the applause and approbation of his country.”
http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/background/amer_afric_par2.html
Again I tell you that Douglass in 1861 ardently sought to enlist blacks to fight -against- the slave power and he was willing to stretch the truth mighty thin to bring that about.
Walt
ROFLMAO - As you pointed out, Frederick Douglass said:
"We would tell him that General Jackson in a slave state fought side by side with Negroes at New Orleans, and like a true man, despising meanness, he bore testimony to their bravery at the close of the war." - Frederick Douglass
That statement is absolutely TRUE. Jackson in a slave state DID fight side by side with negroes at New Orleans, and he DID praise their bravery:
"I was not ignorant that you possessed qualities most formidable to an invading enemy. The President of the United States shall hear how praise worthy was your conduct in the hour of danger." - Andrew Jackson to his black troops
Jackson did keep his promises of $124 and 160 acres of land to both White and Black soldiers. Every single word Douglass said in the quote you gave was TRUE. Once again, you can only fall back on your own desperate desire and attempts to confuse the issues in order to maintain your position. You must also think it a lie that loyal blacks participated in the American Revolution, when they "obviously" could have run off and joined the British to gain their freedom.